Karla Grant on 23 years of Living Black: ‘It’s up to my generation to step up’

From her early days on community radio, the presenter Karla Grant has always understood the power of amplifying Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices.
Karla Grant, presenter of Living Black. Photo: Supplied.

When Living Black host, journalist and Western Arrernte producer Karla Grant was growing up, she didn’t see herself reflected on screen.

It took a toll. Grant knew she wanted to do something about it. ‘Seeing the injustices in my community, when I was a teenager, I thought, “I’m going to be a journalist so that I can highlight these issues that my people are facing,”’ she says.

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Stephen A Russell is a Melbourne-based arts writer. His writing regularly appears in Fairfax publications, SBS online, Flicks, Time Out, The Saturday Paper, The Big Issue and Metro magazine. You can hear him on Joy FM.